All mines (page 16 of 20)

Region

Commodity

Mines 1501–1600 of 1945, A–Z (page 16 of 20).

Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Rossington Colliery Sinking very nearly failed in its first fortnight, before it had even reached coal — the shaft flooded so fast that work had to stop completely for seven months.	South Yorkshire	Sinking from 10 July 1912; coal from July 1916–31 March 2006	Coal
Rothes Colliery An entire new town, Glenrothes, was built to serve a mine that operated for barely four years after its royal opening before failing so badly it became a byword for the National Coal Board's overreach in Scotland.	Fife	1946 (sinking); 1957 (production)–May 1962	Coal
Roughton Gill Mine Roughton Gill's mineral specimens are prized among collectors today for their striking secondary minerals — including linarite, mimetite and pyromorphite — a colourful legacy of the same rich copper- and lead-bearing ground that first drew German miners to the Caldbeck Fells in the 1560s.	Cumbria	12th century (earliest possible); documented from 1564–17th century (main German-era working); reworked later	Copper, Silver, Zinc, Barite, Lead
Roundwood Colliery Bought by a Sheffield steelmaker to bankroll the sinking of Silverwood, and joined to it underground.	South Yorkshire	Early 1860s–Early 1960s	Coal
Rubislaw Quarry One of the biggest man-made holes in Europe; gave Aberdeen its nickname as the Granite City	Aberdeenshire	1740–1971	Granite
Rufford Colliery A five-ton water barrel plunged 156 yards down its own sinking shaft in 1913 after a stray piece of wood jammed the winding engine's brake and throttle levers, killing fourteen men on a scaffold below in one of Nottinghamshire's worst mining disasters.	Nottinghamshire	First shafts sunk in 1911.–Closed in 1993.	Coal
Rumney Quarry Road stone for Victorian Cardiff, cut from a window of Silurian rock in the middle of the suburbs.	Cardiff	Opened in the 19th century–Closed in the 1920s	Limestone, Sandstone
Ruthwaite Mine Thirty tons of ore in 1911 worth fifteen pounds at the mine, and thirty-one people on the books a decade later — nearly all of them at the surface.	Cumbria	Exploring in 1910–Returned to 1925; no closure date located	Barite
Rutland Ironstone Quarries The largest walking dragline in the world finished here, then walked to Corby — over ten roads, a railway and the River Welland	Rutland	1882–1973 (last ore to Corby 1980)	Iron
Sacriston Colliery A man was found alive on top of his coal tub after 92 hours in the dark, surrounded by the flood water that had killed two of his workmates.	County Durham	1839–1985	Coal, Fireclay
Saddlebole Mine A previously unknown shaft here was found only in recent years by the author Alan Garner, whose own rediscovery of a Bronze Age shovel elsewhere on the Edge in 1993 helped transform understanding of the site's ancient mining history.	Cheshire	Documented from 1693–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Copper, Cobalt
Saint Vincent's Colliery A Forest of Dean gale whose coal was no good, kept alive by the brick clay lying underneath it.	Forest of Dean	Licensed 1844–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal, Brick Clay
Sallet Hole Mine Mixed lead/barytes/fluorspar mine near Stoney Middleton, worked from at least the 17th century, underground fluorspar production continued to 1998.	Derbyshire	at least 17th century (as a sough)–1998	Lead, Fluorspar
Sallies Mine A Shropshire barytes mine worked by Malehurst Barytes until 1947, whose shaft now supplies the Gatten estate's water.	Shropshire	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–1947	Barite
Saltom Colliery An engineer who lit the way underground with sparks rather than flame, at a mine that tried to pipe its own gas to light Whitehaven's streets.	Cumbria	1729–1848 (pumping continued to 1866)	Coal
Sandbed Mine A rare case where a single lode's exhaustion at one mine -- Driggith -- directly shifted a succession of companies' attention next door to Sandbed, rather than ending the district's mining outright.	Cumbria	18th century–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead, Copper, Zinc
Sandhole Colliery Its winding engines shared one ornamental engine house between two shafts — and the colliery itself absorbed its exhausted neighbour's last reserves rather than let them go to waste.	Greater Manchester	1865–1962	Coal
Sandlodge Mine Shetland's most productive metal mine; worked on and off for well over a century against constant flooding	Shetland Islands	c. 1790–1929	Copper, Iron
Sandwell Park Colliery The most notable Black Country venture of its day: the first colliery to work the concealed coalfield east of the boundary fault, and the model for Hamstead.	West Midlands	1870–1960	Coal
Sanquhar Coalfield One of Scotland's oldest recorded coalfields, once the largest privately owned coal concern in the country, peaking at over 2,000 miners in the 1920s.	Dumfries and Galloway	Developed from the late 18th century–Fauldhead pit closed 1968; Crawick opencast closed 1980	Coal
Scotgate Ash Quarry Stand on the platform at York, Paddington or Victoria and the edge under your feet may have come off this hillside.	North Yorkshire	By 1351–1915	Sandstone
Scrabo Quarries The sandstone that built much of Victorian Belfast, preserved for quarrying by the sheet of molten dolerite that capped it sixty million years ago.	County Down	Anglo-Norman period–20th century	Sandstone
Seafield Colliery Closed in 1988 with an estimated 200 million tonnes of good-quality coal still in the ground beneath the Forth — a reserve abandoned on economic grounds rather than exhaustion.	Fife	Sinking began 12 May 1954; production from 1965-66–January 1988	Coal
Seaham Colliery A message scratched on a water bottle by a dying hewer in 1880 is the best-known thing ever written underground in County Durham.	County Durham	Sinking begun 13 April 1849; production from 1853–54–1988 (merged with Vane Tempest, 1983)	Coal, Fireclay
Seathwaite Wad Mine Stealing graphite from this one Cumbrian fellside was made a felony by Act of Parliament in 1752 — the mineral was worth more than the miners.	Cumbria	15th century (earliest indirect evidence)–1891	Graphite
Seaton Delaval Colliery A dozen shafts sunk on the Delaval estate over more than a century, and the pit village named in 'Blackleg Miner'.	Northumberland	1838–1960	Coal, Fireclay
Sedling Rake Mine The mine takes its name from the packhorse track that served it, not the other way round -- the 'rake' outlived the workings it once supplied, and still crosses the moor today as a green lane.	County Durham	1818–1948	Lead, Fluorspar
Seedlow Lead Mine A detailed account of the mine's 1764-71 working, by Robert Thornhill, was published in the Peak District Mines Historical Society's own journal in 1962 -- one of the society's earliest pieces of published research into an individual Derbyshire lead mine.	Derbyshire	medieval (traced back ~7 centuries); main activity 17th-18th century–Last worked in the mid-19th century.	Lead
Seend Ironstone Quarry A brief Victorian iron rush saw three 50-foot blast furnaces built at this greensand ironstone quarry before high transport costs closed them within three decades; the site is now recognised as one of only two known Lower Cretaceous ironstone deposits in Britain.	Wiltshire	Ore known since at least 1666; commercial working from 1856/57–Furnaces dismantled 1889/90	Iron
Seghill Colliery Its manager opened the door between Seghill and Burradon in 1860 so the dead could be brought out that way.	Northumberland	1824–28 September 1962	Coal, Fireclay
Serridge Pit Its name survives today chiefly through an official Coal Authority abandonment plan that groups it together with Ram Hill and several numbered Coalpit Heath pits on a single combined sheet -- evidence of how closely interlinked this district's underground workings were.	Gloucestershire	c.1785–after 1845	Coal
Settlingstones Mine For nearly a century, one small Northumberland mine was the entire world's commercial supply of a mineral almost nowhere else on Earth.	Northumberland	1687–1969	Witherite
Seven Sisters Colliery Named for the seven sisters at the cutting of its first sod, and the reason the village around it is called Seven Sisters at all.	Neath Port Talbot	1872–1963	Coal
Seymour Colliery A Staveley company pit on one seam, with a village of a hundred houses beside it.	Derbyshire	Sinking began 1855; in production 1858–1918	Coal
Shakerley Colliery Its owner vanished on the way to the bank in 1869, and his wife kept the pits working until he walked home from Liverpool.	Greater Manchester	1830s or 1840s–1938	Coal
Shap Granite Quarries Its distinctive pink feldspar crystals have made Shap granite one of Britain's most recognisable building stones for over 150 years.	Cumbria	1864 (large-scale); small-scale working predates this–Still active	Granite
Sharkham Point Iron Mine A Devon hematite mine worked for over a century, its ore shipped to South Wales and Hartlepool, now a nature conservation area with several accessible adits.	Devon	c. 1790 (extensively worked from the late 1830s)–1914-15	Iron
Sharlston Colliery Its pit wheel wasn't just retired — it was cut clean in half, with one piece placed at each end of the village's main road, so nobody in Sharlston passes through without seeing it.	West Yorkshire	Opened 1858; shafts sunk 1865–July 1993	Coal
Shaw Beck Gill Mine A lead level in the valley of Shaw Beck, marked on historical Ordnance Survey maps, documented among the cluster of workings -- alongside Booze, Slei Gill, Punchard Gill, Whaw, Wetshaw and Fell End -- that made up Arkengarthdale's lead-mining industry.	North Yorkshire	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
Sherdley Colliery Kept on as a pumping station for years after its own coal stopped, because it sat up dip.	Merseyside	Established 1872-3; in the Mines List from 1873–Coal working ceased 1944; pumping continued	Coal
Sheriff Hill Colliery The gassiest pit on Gateshead Fell, where four explosions and a fire between 1793 and 1819 killed at least 65, thirty-three of them boys in a single morning.	Tyne and Wear	By 1793–By 1895-97	Coal
Sherwood Colliery A Mansfield Woodhouse pit that set a world tunnelling record and a British output record.	Nottinghamshire	Sinking began 1901-2; first coal September 1902–January 1992	Coal
Shilbottle Colliery Bought by the Co-operative Wholesale Society for £50 — and the only pit in the district to give its men paid holiday and a pension.	Northumberland	1807–1982	Coal
Shirebrook Colliery A mining village of 600 people became a town of 11,000 within fifteen years of this pit being sunk — one of the fastest transformations of any community in this archive.	Derbyshire	Sinking started 1896–April 1993	Coal
Shireoaks Colliery Five years of sinking before it struck coal in 1859 — and though it stood in Nottinghamshire it spent its last twenty-three years administered from South Yorkshire.	Nottinghamshire	1859–May 1990	Coal
Shortwood Colliery Bought by Handel Cossham in 1871 and reduced to pumping and ventilation for Parkfield.	South Gloucestershire	Thought to be late 18th century; new shaft 1871–1936, with Parkfield	Coal
Shotton Surface Mine Its spoil was landscaped into a quarter-mile-long reclining woman and opened as a park eight years before the mine stopped.	Northumberland	Permitted 2007–Summer 2020	Coal, Fireclay
Shotts Iron Works Under the slogan 'Shotts lights the world' this ironworks' decorative gas lamp standards were exported across the British Empire, and can still be seen on the streets of Edinburgh's New Town.	North Lanarkshire	Mineral lease taken 16 April 1801; first blast furnace 1802–1951 (furnaces blown out 1947; company wound up 1951/52)	Iron
Shuttle Eye Colliery Started by the landlord of the Blacksmiths Arms at Grange Moor crossroads, worked for over a century, and now under warehouses.	West Yorkshire	1862–1973	Coal
Silence Mine A 1738 dispute over possession rights turned violent enough that 30-40 men defended the mine day and night against the sheriff's own officers -- a dispute not finally settled until Articles of Agreement were signed eleven years later, in 1749.	Derbyshire	Worked from 1713–Closed in 1885	Lead
Silksworth Colliery Lord Londonderry’s model colliery village, and the place where 150 eviction warrants were served on striking miners’ families in February 1891.	Tyne and Wear	1869–6 November 1971	Coal
Silver Gill Mine Few British mine sites carry an archaeological date as precise as Silver Gill's: excavation has pinned its earliest workings to 1020-1200, a rare case of a medieval mine dated by evidence rather than inference from documents.	Cumbria	worked 1020-1200 (archaeologically dated); documented from 1331–worked into the Elizabethan period; final closure date unrecorded	Lead, Copper, Silver
Silver Hillocks Mine Its knockstones were the anvils women worked at with 'bucking hammers' to break down freshly-drawn ore -- the only such examples left standing in Derbyshire.	Derbyshire	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
Silverband Mine Historic England rates the surviving ropeway the best example of its kind used in metal mining anywhere in England — and, according to one study, parts of the dismantled system went on to a second life at the Aviemore Ski Centre in Scotland.	Cumbria	Worked periodically for lead from at least the 19th century–Closed in the 1960s; reopened intermittently later in the 20th century	Barite, Lead
Silverbrook Mine The engine tower here is so thoroughly reclaimed by ivy that walkers regularly take it for an ornamental folly, with no idea a lead mine's pumping engine once stood inside it.	Devon	1852–1850s	Lead, Silver
Silverdale Colliery The last deep mine in North Staffordshire, closed on Christmas Eve 1998 — and its spoil heap has been burning since 1996.	Staffordshire	1830–December 1998	Coal, Ironstone
Silverhill Colliery Set a European record for thin-seam coal mining just four years before closing for good — its old spoil tip is now crowned by a bronze miner testing for gas that never comes.	Nottinghamshire	1875–March 1993 (production ceased October 1992)	Coal
Silverwood Colliery A Rotherham colliery twice visited by reigning monarchs, marked by tragedy in a 1966 underground train collision, now reclaimed as parkland and a nature reserve.	South Yorkshire	Shaft sinking began 1900; coal worked from 1904–1994	Coal
Sipton Mine Its shaft housed the last hydraulic hoist engine used anywhere in the North Pennine orefield, in service until the mine's final closure in 1946, and supported its own workers' housing terrace and a Wesleyan chapel.	Northumberland	1850s (discovery); 1860s (galena working)–1923-1948 (Weardale Lead Co.); shaft closed 1946	Lead
Sir Francis Level (Lownathwaite Mine) Sir Francis Level holds a genuine claim to technological distinction: the compressed-air rock drills installed here in 1870 were the first ever used in a Yorkshire mine, and the underground hydraulic engine that survives from the same era of investment is thought to be one of very few of its kind left anywhere.	North Yorkshire	1864–1882	Lead
Sirhowy Ironworks One of the earliest coke-fired ironworks in Gwent, it grew to five blast furnaces before iron smelting ended in 1882.	Blaenau Gwent	Founded 1778; first coke-fired furnace in the district–Iron smelting ended 1882; coke and lime production continued to 1905	Iron
Six Bells Colliery The worst British colliery disaster since the war, and the 20-metre miner that now stands where the shafts were	Blaenau Gwent	Shafts sunk from 1892–1988	Coal
Skelton Park Pit Very little survives of Cleveland's ironstone industry as a whole -- Skelton Park is the exception, preserved almost by accident into the best physical record of how the whole district's mines actually worked.	North Yorkshire	1870–1938	Iron
Skye Marble Quarry Britain's only true marble deposit, served historically by its own narrow-gauge railway to Broadford pier.	Highland	hand-worked from at least 1703; industrialised 1907-13–1907-13 works failed by 1913-14	Marble
Slack, Mount Pleasant and Barmasters Grove Lead Mines An 1882 probe of the mine's New Shaft found water at 222 feet, prompting a planned 800-yard sough extension that was started but never finished for lack of funds.	Derbyshire	Documented from 1541–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
Slaley Sough Kept dry by an overlying layer of volcanic toadstone rather than by good drainage, and driven far beyond any useful ore -- possibly by investors who, as one historian put it, 'had more money than sense'.	Derbyshire	Sough begun c.1740–Extended 1854-59; no later working recorded	Lead
Slapewath Ironstone Mine Thomas Charlton built rows of houses for his men beside the mine, and the village has been called Charltons ever since — though the mining also undermined one of the rows badly enough that it had to come down.	North Yorkshire	1864–1906	Ironstone
Slei Gill Mine Flash floods in 2019 tore through the gill twice in one year, first exposing previously-unrecorded mine workings and then burying them again before they could be fully documented.	North Yorkshire	Before 1066–Late 19th century	Lead
Slitherstone and Linacre Lead Mines Worked to 110 fathoms (202m) using nothing more than horse-gin haulage and manpower -- at a depth where a Derbyshire mine would usually have turned to steam.	Derbyshire	Documented from mid-18th century–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
Slitt Mine A well-documented Weardale lead mine with surviving surface remains.	County Durham	Early 1700s–1878 or later — sources disagree (see history)	Lead
Smallcleugh Mine A major Nenthead lead mine best remembered for the Ballroom Flat, a huge underground ore chamber where the local Masonic Lodge dined 28 guests in 1901.	Cumbria	c.1770 (abandoned); restarted 1787 by the London Lead Company–Large-scale working ended c.1900; brief unsuccessful reopening 1963	Lead, Zinc
Smarts Quarry A bedding surface covered in star-shaped feeding traces left by burrowing bivalves, unique in the Namurian grits of South Wales.	Carmarthenshire	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–Disused by 1987, when the site was notified	Sandstone
Smeaton Colliery Six surface mines driven, two used; its 1953 washery served seven other collieries.	Midlothian	Sinking and production from 1903–1978	Coal
Smelt Colliery A day-level into Brymbo hill that opened in 1790, ended its life raising fireclay for the brickworks, and outlasted every other mine around it by nearly thirty years.	Wrexham	1790–1967	Coal, Fireclay
Smithy Wood Colliery Its coal came out on a cable belt in an incline nearly a mile and a half long, and an aerial ropeway linked it to two other pits of the same company.	South Yorkshire	1890–1986	Coal
Snaefell Mine The site of the Isle of Man's worst mining disaster in 1897 (20 dead) — and of a pumping waterwheel that was shipped to Cornwall when the mine closed in 1908, then brought back to the Island in 2003, nearly a century later.	Isle of Man	1856–1908	Zinc, Lead, Silver
Snailbeach Mine Once one of the richest lead mines in Europe	Shropshire	1781–1955	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite, Fluorspar
Snake Mine A small, one-man-scale mine in its final decades that nonetheless survives as a well-preserved Scheduled Monument, excavated by the Peak District Mines Historical Society in 1967 and later explored underground with its last working operator, Mr Hodgson, acting as guide.	Derbyshire	possibly 17th century (timber rails found)–Worked sporadically until about 1920 by Mr Hodgson	Lead
Sneyd Colliery The Burslem pit where 57 men and boys died on New Year's Day 1942, in a coal-dust explosion touched off in a haulage drift they had only worked because of the war.	Staffordshire	Early 19th century–July 1962	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Snibston Colliery Sunk by George and Robert Stephenson; its railway to the Leicester and Swannington line was one of Britain's earliest	Leicestershire	1831-32 (sinking); 1833 (production)–Own coal production ended 1983; wider site closed 1986	Coal
Snowdown Colliery Called Dante's Inferno by its own workforce: 38°C, 80 per cent humidity, and 24 pints of water a shift.	Kent	Sinking from 1907; first coal 1912–1987	Coal
Snydale Colliery A small Featherstone pit that began with a borehole striking gas, not coal.	West Yorkshire	Shafts sunk from 1863–Coal drawing stopped August 1965	Coal
Solsgirth Colliery Solsgirth set a European coal-output record in 1975 and was retired gracefully in 1990 — twelve years before the flood that finally ended deep coal mining in Scotland struck a part of the wider complex it had already stopped working.	Clackmannanshire	opened 1965–January 1990	Coal
South Bantaskine Colliery Coal run straight out of the hillside into canal boats without a shaft, then a garden laid over the workings, then the Coal Board knocking the house down to mine it again.	Falkirk	1828 (Wilson); 1946 (National Coal Board)–About 1860, and again in 1959	Coal
South Caradon Mine South Caradon's origin story is a classic of Cornish mining lore: a syndicate of miners who couldn't persuade London investors to back them persevered for three years on their own before striking a lode so rich it turned their near-worthless shares into a fortune almost overnight.	Cornwall	1836 (main lode struck); trial working from 1833–1885	Copper
South Crofty Last operating tin mine in Cornwall; repeated restart attempts since closure	Cornwall	1592–1998	Tin, Copper
South Hooe Mine South Hooe's silver assay of up to 180 ounces to the ton was exceptional even by the standards of the silver-rich Tamar Valley mines — richer, ton for ton, than the silver return most other British lead mines could ever hope to match.	Devon	13th century–1885	Lead, Silver
South Kirkby Colliery A rescue officer, Frank Dale, was one of the ten who died in 1935 — killed by a second explosion while helping recover the men lost in the first.	South Yorkshire	Sunk c. 1880-81–1988	Coal
South Leicester Colliery The Hugglescote pit that ended as Ellistown's ventilation shaft, its steam winders made redundant by a tunnel	Leicestershire	Sinking from January 1876–1983 (merged with Bagworth)	Coal
South Liberty Colliery The first pit sunk in the Bedminster coalfield and the last one left, 177 years later — pumped, it is said, by the same engine throughout	Bristol	1748–1925	Coal
South Polgooth Mine Its tall granite chimney did double duty -- serving both the beam engine house and the arsenic calciners beside it, an unusual shared arrangement rarely seen at other Cornish mines.	Cornwall	Recorded as a tin working in 1593–Trials still being conducted in 1916	Tin, Copper, Arsenic
South Skelton Mine Known as the Van Pit: leased in 1865, it swallowed Boosbeck when the water beat it in 1887, worked on to 1954, and kept a pair of above-ground pony stables, rare in Cleveland, until well after closure.	North Yorkshire	Leased 1865; shafts sunk and mining from 1872–1954	Ironstone
South Terras Mine Britain's only uranium and radium mine; supplied some of Marie Curie's earliest radium samples	Cornwall	c. 1870 (iron); 1889 (uranium)–1930 (early 1930s, mine abandoned)	Uranium
South Wheal Frances A pioneer as much as a producer: the first Cornish mine to use wire rope permanently instead of hemp or chains, and the site of the county's first cast-iron underground flood dam.	Cornwall	1820s–1918 (pumping finally stopped December 1919)	Tin, Copper
Southrigg Colliery The Southrigg pits east of Harthill, begun by a bankrupt coal merchant in 1883 and drowned out by 1939, whose No. 3 made Greenrigg village and whose Netherton chimney was blown down after lightning.	West Lothian	1883–1939	Coal
Spa Mine The Branch Mine, so called because it went in under the railway — which subsided in 1879 and nearly took a train with it.	North Yorkshire	1864–1886 (lease ran to 1904)	Ironstone
Spa Wood Mine Leased in 1853 and eleven years from lease to first stone, and when it came the ore was poor; the mine spent the next seventy years stopping and starting.	North Yorkshire	Leased 1853; production from 1864–1930	Ironstone
Speedwell Cavern Speedwell has now been open to visitors, in one form or another, for far longer than it was ever worked as a lead mine — its failed investment paying off, in the end, as entertainment rather than ore.	Derbyshire	1771–1790	Lead
Speedwell Colliery Worked for over two centuries — and so thoroughly redeveloped since that almost nothing of it can be seen today	Bristol	Worked from the early 18th century–1936	Coal
Speedwell Colliery, Giltbrook A ten-year pit that got its own railway: the Bennerley and Bulwell line was built past it in 1879.	Nottinghamshire	1875–1885	Coal